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Governance

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Please note that this content is under development and is not ready for implementation. This status message will be updated as content development progresses.

The UNTP governance framework follows UN/CEFACT standard governance methodology and is designed to provide implementers with confidence that UNTP:

  • is a public good that cannot be captured by any specific commercial interest and is permanently free to use.
  • is developed via a consensus based process that ensures it will meet the needs of value chain actors and member states.
  • is specific, testable, and rigorously versioned so that implementers can be confident of stability and interoperability.
  • is compatible with relevant national and international standards and regulations.

UNTP Governance Framework

The governance framework covers four distinct domains.

UNTP Core Specification​

How the UNTP specification itself is developed, maintained, and versioned as a UN standard — including the UN/CEFACT framework, working groups, participation rules, change management process, and version management.

UNTP Technical Implementations Register​

UNTP adoption depends on technical implementations by Identifier registers, conformity schemes, credential extensions, and software systems. This is the bottom-up process by which individual implementations earn registration by building conformant implementations, passing tests and providing evidence.

UNTP Sectoral Collaboration Fora​

How communities working in the same sector or jurisdiction collaborate on harmonisation, re-use, and the sharing of lessons across multiple UNTP extensions and implementations. This is the top-down process that complements implementation governance — ensuring that technically interoperable implementations also converge on shared semantics and best practices through sectoral fora.

UNTP Community Activation Program​

The Community Activation Program (CAP) provides a methodology and business case for member organisations to drive collective UNTP adoption across their membership. Communities choose from registered technical components — identity registers, conformity schemes, credential extensions, and software systems — to accelerate interoperable implementation, and join sectoral fora to facilitate collaboration and harmonisation across their industry.